Obama mourns US dead, claims to 'stand fast'

US President Barack Obama (R) looks on as the remains of four US embassy staff are transferred during a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 14, 2012.

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We will bring to justice those who took them from us. We will stand fast against the violence on our diplomatic missions."
US President Barack Obama

US President Barack Obama claims to "stand fast" against what he calls anti-US violence, which has engulfed the Muslim world, as he honors the return of the bodies of the four US nationals killed in Libya.
Obama made the remarks on Friday during a mourning ceremony held for US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other US citizens, who were killed when Libyan protesters torched the US Consulate in Benghazi.
The protests were sparked by a blasphemous anti-Islam film recently produced in the US.
"We will bring to justice those who took them from us. We will stand fast against the violence on our diplomatic missions," Obama said at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.
"Even as voices of suspicion and mistrust seek to divide countries and cultures from one another, the United States of America will never retreat from the world," he vowed.
Obama’s remarks contradict those he made during his speech, known as “A New Beginning,” to the Muslim world in Cairo back in June 2009. Speaking at al-Azhar University, the US president reached out to the Muslim world by saying that he seeks a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.
Demonstrations over the anti-Islam film have been held across the Muslim world, with protesters storming the US embassies and torching the US flags.
Demonstrators in Iran, Sudan, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Kashmir, Pakistan, Iraq, Gaza, Morocco, Syria, Kuwait, Nigeria, Kenya, and some other Muslim countries poured into the streets after Friday prayers to defend their faith and condemn the movie that insulted Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
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